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Dear all, I would like to share with you information about an interesting conference that is going to take place in Glasgow in the end of February. The title of the conference is “Educational Futures and Fractures”. The conference is hosted by Professor Yvette Taylor – a leading researcher working at the crossing of sociology and education. The conference will […]

Dr Will Baker, the deputy director of the Centre for Global Englishes at the University of Southampton, will give a talk next Thursday, 20 October, from 14.00-15.20 in Crawford House, lecture theatre 2. You can read his abstract and bio below. If you are interested in, please you arrive early since this will be a popular lecture.   Conceptualising cultures in transcultural communication: […]

The IATEFL and TESOL International Association joint web conference will be held over three days from the 17 – 19 November 2016. The web-conference will explore the following themes: Day 1 (17 Nov) World Englishes Session 1 and Session 2 The varieties of English used by different groups and/or in different parts of the world (including varieties used among second language users), representing […]

The ICLLTL 2017 : 19th International Conference on Linguistics, Language Teaching and Learning will be held in Madrid, Spain, March 26 – 27, 2017. The deadline of submission is October 15, 2016. The conference is the premier interdisciplinary platform for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of Linguistics, Language Teaching and Learning. The conference will bring together leading academic scientists, researchers […]

CHAT, identity politics and activism reading group will take place on Tuesday 18 October at 4.15pm – 5.30pm in room C2.17, Ellen Wilkinson building. We are beginning by focusing on the concept of perezhivanie, which is described by Vygotsky (1934/1994) as ‘emotional experience‘ which is ‘an indivisible unity of personal characteristics and situational characteristics’; or as Blunden (2016) describes, ‘a unit of development of the […]

The CALL FOR PROPOSALS for the 3rd INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON LANGUAGES, CULTURES, IDENTITY IN SCHOOLS AND SOCIETY, which will be held in SORIA, SPAIN, JULY 5-7, 2017, is now open. The DEADLINE for submissions (IN ENGLISH AND IN SPANISH) is JANUARY 31, 2017. ……………………………………… The Colloquium, organized by the School of Education at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, revolves […]